12 [ The Lovell Chronicle I October 13, 2011
Rocky
Mountain High
School dancers
performed at
halftime of
the Rocky-
Shoshoni
homecoming
game Friday
afternoon
in Cowley.
Pictured are (l-
r) Sarah Jones,
Ciera Coleman,
Denice
Escalante,
Maddie
Crawford,
Caitlyn
Sorenson
(hidden), Lori
McCracken,
Haley Strom
and Jessica
Allred.
DAVID PECK
Fair board to present formal proposal for
county to take over fair maintenance
BY JENNIFER BUTLER
The Big Horn County
Fair Board held a special
joint work session with the
Big Horn County Commis-
sioners in Lovell Monday to
discuss the monetary issues
they are facing for the re-
mainder of the year.
It was recently discov-
ered the fair's cash reserve
of $30,200 had been add-
ed twice to the budget and
funding had already been
spent. According to a pre-
vious newspaper article,
board member Willie Bridg-
es said at the Big Horn
Commissioners meeting on
Tuesday, Oct. 4, "It looks
like our expenses are with-
in the budget, but that's be-
cause the revenues were in-
flated. We always have cash
flow issues, but this one is
exaggerated because of the
budget mistake. We need to
ask you to increase our bud-
get to cover the budget er-
ror."
Monday night Chair-
man Jerry Ewen said, "In
looking forward, one of the
things we had talked about
the other day at the meet-
ing was a dollar amount
and how we would handle
that to keep everything op-
erating, and the other issue
is restructuring the main-
tenance to put it back into
the county. This other is-
sue is payroll staying with
your CPA (certified public
accountant)."
Board member Alfred
Anderson said if the county
were to take over the pay-
roll, the County Clerk Dori
Noyes would need to hire
another employee to do pay-
roll and to do other neces-
sary work for the fair board.
Commissioner Keith
Grant said, "If we are going
to change it over and have
the county handle the mon-
ey and it is not going to save
us anything or be more eco-
nomical there is no need to
make the change."
Grant added he can see
the benefits of combining the
maintenance with the coun-
ty, stating, "The grounds
maintenance we can incor-
porate into our county main-
tenance guy and make that
more efficient and probably
cheaper."
Grant also said he be-
lieved combining the fair
maintenance with the coun-
ty maintenance would be
beneficial and successful.
Bridges said, "Fred
Werner (county mainte-
nance supervisor) taking
the maintenance, I think,
could work really well. The
person(s) that would work
underneath would be his
employee and he would be
the supervisor to that em-
ployee and he would just
work closely with our man-
ager as to what needs to be
done ... I think we would
see more regular mainte-
nance and more consisten-
cy in it than what we have
had."
Bridges suggested the
board utilize the temporary
work program through the
county that would allow
the fair to be reimbursed
the wages for the part-time
summer help. He added
this would be beneficial be-
cause it would help lighten
the budget load from the
fairgrounds.
Bridges said it would be
great if Werner could begin
as soon as possible, but it
comes down to the available
funding. Funding would be
needed to hire a fair man-
ager. According to Bridges,
they would need $30,800
minimum for utilities and
employment.
Board Chairman Mat-
ty Moody said they have
already selected a well-
rounded candidate for the
fair manager but have not
extended an offer.
Anderson suggested to
the board members that
the county plan a two-year
budget to help prepare each
year's funding. Anderson
said because of the incon-
sistency of the fair revenues
a two-year budget would be
beneficial.
Bridges said the bud-
get could vary each year by
thousands of dollars. Ewen
suggested to take the aver-
ages from the past three to
four years to help target the
necessary funding, but the
legality would need to be
checked before a commit-
ment is made.
Ewen said these items
could be taken up at the
next commissioners meet-
ing on Oct. 18.
Bridges made a motion
during the public Big Horn
County Fair Board meet-
ing to present the commis-
sioners with a proposal to
provide a two-year budget
that includes having the
fairgrounds maintenance
turned over to county forces
and that the commission-
ers supplement the budget
with a minimum amount of
$30,800 due to the misun-
derstanding in the budget.
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